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title: Alice in Zombieland

authors: Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook


genre: fiction/humor/zombie spoof/parody

pages: 240

published: February 2011

source: ARC sent for review from Sourcebooks

first line: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do.

rated: deliciously twisted

3 1/2 out of 5 stars

Esteemed author Nickolas Cook gives new life, or rather takes it away, in his version of Alice in Alice in Zombieland. When Alice follows the Black Rat down an open grave, she falls and falls into a world full of the undead, rotting flesh, and characters beyond her imagination. But there’s something troubling Alice. Her skin is rotting and her hair is falling out, and she has the haunting feeling that is she remains in Zombieland any longer, she might never leave. Can Alice escape Zombieland, and stay out of the Dead Red Queen’s clutches along the way?

I've actually never read Alice In Wonderland, but I have seen the film version so I know the basic storyline.

In this zombified version, Alice is playing in a graveyard near her home with her sister when she spots a Black Rat nearby and follows it down an open grave.
Alice ends up in Zombieland where the Red Queen rules over the living and the dead.


She ends up meeting strange characters, most of whom seem to not be alive, yet not wholly dead. Some of these strange characters are the Conqueror Wurm and the Corpse Turtle.

Alice herself is starving and has a strange craving for live meat, and finds it hard to focus on anything but her hunger and how yummy some of the characters she stumbles across look. Her hair is also falling out and her skin has a blue tint to it.



As she goes through Zombieland, Alice tries to find her way back home. She finally comes across the Red Queen herself and her small army of zombies.



This was a fun read, I enjoyed the Cheshire Cat scene and the Tea Party scene the most.

"In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a Dead Hare. Visit either you like: they're both zombies."

"But I don't want to go among dead people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all dead here. I'm dead. You're dead."


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I found Alice in Zombieland to be very twisted, plenty of scenes were gruesome and not for the faint of heart. The illustrations within the book were entertaining and I finished this one in one sitting.








If you're a fan of spoofs and zombies, you might enjoy this one.


As for myself, I'd like to read the original soon. I do wonder how close to Carroll's original story this parody is.

She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the pale, smelly mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large black wurm, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly supping on a freshly dismembered human ear which it had stolen from the nearby graveyard and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.

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title: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After

author: Steve Hockensmith


genre: humor/fiction/Austen Spoof

published: 03.22.2011


source: ARC copy from Quirk Classics

pages: 287

first line: As his beloved Elizabeth shattered the nearest zombie's skull with a perfectly placed axe kick, Fitzwilliam Darcy saw in her eyes something that had been missing for a long, long time: joie de vivre.


rated: 4 out of 5 stars

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its prequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, were both New York Times best sellers, with a combined 1.3 million copies in print. Now the PPZ trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After.

Dreadfully Ever After is the third and final installment in the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies trilogy.
What can I say, other than this trilogy has been a fun and quirky ride?

Dreadfully Ever After starts off with a happily married Elizabeth and Darcy visiting the Bingley's, who I might add have four children. Elizabeth is no longer allowed to slay zombies in public especially, since she is now a married woman and doing so is frowned upon when she has a perfectly capable husband to slay the undead for her.


On the walk home, Darcy is bitten by a zombie child.
Lizzie refuses to do what she is supposed to do to anyone who has been bitten by an unmentionable. She cannot bear to slice her beloveds head off with her katana.
Instead Lizzie contacts Darcy's aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, since there is rumor she has access to a cure for the disease.



Lady Catherine agrees to help Darcy, but she does have a few stipulations, the first being she take him back to her home and away from Lizzie, who she still hates. Elizabeth and her sister Kitty are supposed to be seductresses as well, getting the zombie cure from its creator, Sir Angus MacFarquhar, and his son Bunny.


Lady Catherine sees this as an opportunity to get rid of Lizzie and ruin her reputation once and for all. It's also her chance to get her sickly daughter, Anne, near Darcy.






I thoroughly enjoyed Dreadfully Ever After. Having read the first two books in this trilogy, I was eager to get to this one. I laughed out loud as I read and the book kept me hooked wondering what would happen next. The illustrations within the book add that 'special touch'.
Author Steve Hockensmith combines two of my favorite things: Pride & Prejudice and zombies. What's most impressive is that what started as inserting zombies into Austen's beloved novel Pride & Prejudice, has spurned two other books that have a life of their own.


I think this is a great conclusion to the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies trilogy. It was funny, quirky and Austen's beloved characters stay true to form, though most are highly trained warriors. Lizzie's dainty parasol conceals well hidden razor blades and a small sword in its center. I'm actually sad to see it all end.

Not everyone in Derbyshire had accepted the warrior woman of inferior birth who had married their precious Fitzwilliam Darcy. Even after years at Pemberly House-years in which she'd never once worn her katana in public-she still caught the occasional whiff of disapproval. The resentment seemed to stir up most whenever her mother visited, yet Elizabeth could never be sure when it might arise.

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title: Pat the Zombie A Cruel (Adult) Spoof


authors: by Aaron Ximm, Illustrations by Kaveh Soofi

genre: zombies, adult spoof

published: ARC Available April 26, 2011

source: sent by publisher for review

first line: Here are Paul and Judy.


rated: nasty! yet fun....

In this soon-to-be classic, trusting toddlers Paul and Judy play peek-a-boo with a shroud, inhale the aroma of decomposing remains, check in the mirror for signs of infection, reach for Daddy’s putrefying face, and, of course, gut the Zombie! Grownup fans of the original will find all eight activities revoltingly re-imagined, with all their favorite touch-and-feel features creatively, yet sensitively, lampooned, as the undead come lurchingly back to life.

Creators Aaron Ximm and Kaveh Soofi, took the children's book Pat the Bunny and zombified it.


What fun this was!! I liked the 'scratch and sniff' part the best.
The book itself is small and it's interactive. You can 'feel daddy's putrefying face and you can 'gut the zombie' as you read along.



I think this makes a good collectors item for those who are fans of zombies and spoofs. It would also make a fun quirky gift for those who appreciate this type of humor. Warning: this one is not for weak stomachs.